How would you improve your photography?

I saw this question asked elsewhere.

How would you improve Your photography?

I think I'd take more time to frame my shots and work to improve the balance between light areas and dark areas. I seem to be struggling with that lately.

Steve Thomas

stevet1 wrote:

I saw this question asked elsewhere.

How would you improve Your photography?

I think I'd take more time to frame my shots and work to improve the balance between light areas and dark areas. I seem to be struggling with that lately.

Steve Thomas

Additionally - White balance and levelled horizont. Perspective correction, sometimes, esp. big heads. You need to shoot with more space around for this.

Lens corrections , when needed.

And first of all, deleting the bad pictures before showing, no joke : -)

Digirame wrote:

This is a constant task for me. My goal is to be able to take the best pictures at the time, so that I have minimal post processing to do. For example, when I was at a polar plunge I noticed that the people were in the center of the photograph. I realized that they looked better if they were slightly higher in the frame. I don't know why; it just looked better that way. So next time, I'll hopefully remember.

This is called “Rule of Thirds”. It says ,that picture looks nice, when the main subject is placed on the lines in the 1/3 of height or width of the frame, even better on their sections... Simple yet effective.

There are more of such rules, Golden Ratio is the most known. Search for “framing best practices”.

Well, I'm constantly trying to spend more time thinking about the photo, before I take it, with the aim of better final output.

(Like the others in this thread have already said I guess.)

stevet1 wrote:

I saw this question asked elsewhere.

How would you improve Your photography?

I think I'd take more time to frame my shots and work to improve the balance between light areas and dark areas. I seem to be struggling with that lately.

Steve Thomas

You always need post processing. This is how I greatly increased the wow factor. I learned how to use several apps in sequence to clean my photos and I can now do it with my eyes closed! Just by looking at one photo, I know exactly how to improve it before I even fire up the apps.

I forget to check my settings sometimes, getting out more often to take photographs, trying different styles, learning how to use layers in editing plus how to colour grade. The list seems endless.